Database Administration: The Complete Guide to Practices and Procedures

Combining tutorial and reference elements, this guide provides a
non- product-based description of database administration
techniques and practices. It defines the job of the database
administrator (DBA), underscoring the necessity of a DBA for a
database management system (DBMS) implementation to succeed,
then proceeds chronologically through every task the DBA is
likely to encounter. The book can be used as a text for database
administration, as the basis for setting up a DBA group, to
augment a DBMS-specific text or manual, and to help upper-level
management explain why the DBA position is necessary. Mullins is
a data management strategist in the private sector.